Seeking The Right Change
Change happens in steps.
In the book A Calendar of Wisdom by Leo Tolstoy, you can find the following:
“Everyone thinks of changing the world but no one thinks of changing themselves.”
A Calendar of Wisdom is a book designed to read everyday for a year. Simply reading one page per day that goes with today’s date. For example, today you would read the page that says April 27. It’s a book of wisdom, providing statements from Tolstoy and other known men and women to meditate one. To provoke thought, very much like this blog you’re reading now.
We all have high hopes and aims in how we can impact the world and others. However, do we apply that same level of thinking to our individual lives? What good is changing the world if you remain the same? Unchanged. Under-developed. Lacking growth or improvement.
In order for you to change the world, you first have to change. You must go through a series of changes before you can do it for others. You wouldn’t give money advice to someone even though you handle money poorly. You wouldn’t give marriage advice if you’ve never married. You should want to change the world. But first, what can you do to change yourself.?
As Gandhi is known for saying, “be the change you want to see in the world.”
In other words, don’t talk about it, be about it. Or as the Stoics say, “don’t talk about your philosophy, embody it.”
Thought Provoking Question 1 : What do you want to do to change the world?
Thought Provoking Question 2 : What change can you start with for yourself/
Dan Roman is a Husband, Father, and writer that releases a daily blog. A quick read on sharing wisdom and asking though-provoking questions.
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